Capital Journal

A pair of recent scenes—President Trump announcing new tariffs and Hillary Clinton saying her party wins in economically dynamic areas—show how the two parties are between transformation and identity crisis, Gerald F. Seib writes.

Their continuing presence has sharpened debate over whether gifts of food and medicine allow Kim Jong Un’s regime to divert domestic spending to its nuclear arms program. Aid groups say they are building goodwill.

Newell Brands agreed to nominate four independent board directors chosen by Carl Icahn and consider selling more of its businesses as part of a truce with the activist investor, the consumer-goods company said.

Congress will enter its last major fiscal battle before November’s midterms this week, as lawmakers prepare to debate a mammoth spending bill that offers them the last chance to settle dozens of long-running fights.62

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Forty-five groups representing a wide swath of the U.S. economy are asking the president to work with other nations to press Beijing to end restrictions on foreign firms instead of imposing tariffs on China.100

Google and Facebook have dominated the U.S. digital advertising market for years, but new data show signs that platforms like Amazon and Snapchat are chipping away at the digital duopoly’s market share.

For Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, having fended off an unwanted takeover from Broadcom just leaves more headaches, from customer disputes to unhappy shareholders to a long-shot takeover bid from his former boss.

The world’s top shopping mall companies are betting that e-commerce isn’t such an existential threat. The latest sign is a tentative bid for U.K. real-estate investment trust Hammerson from its French peer Klépierre.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s victory in Sunday’s presidential election has left deep divisions in an opposition movement that had been buoyed in recent months by countrywide protests, but that failed to translate its momentum into a broad political movement.

The European Union has agreed on the broad terms of Britain’s two-year transition deal after leaving the bloc in March 2019, according to an EU official familiar with the discussions, but Ireland remains “an issue.”